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  • Strategy without Design

    The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action

    by Robert C. H. Chia, Robin Holt ...
    Strategy exhibits a pervasive commitment to the belief that the best approach to adopt in dealing with affairs of the world is to confront, overcome and subjugate things to conform to our will, control and eventual mastery. Performance is about sustaining distinctiveness. This direct and deliberate approach draws inspiration from ancient Greek roots and has become orthodoxy. Yet there are ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Strategy-In-Practices

    A Process-Philosophical Perspective on Strategy-Making

    by Robert C. H. Chia, David Mackay ...
    Series series Elements in Business Strategy
    This Element maintains that increasing strategic effectiveness involves paying greater attention to the idiosyncratic capabilities and know-how already accumulated in an organization's shared practices and the modus operandi contained therein. An organization's modus operandi describes the practiced patterned regularities that enables it to achieve a consistency of response in strategic ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Art of Cosmic Vision

    Practices for Improving Your Eyesight

    by Mantak Chia, Robert T. Lewanski ...
    How to achieve perfect vision naturally through proven eye-training methods• Explains how vision problems are related to imbalances in the internal organs• Provides Taoist and Ayurvedic practices for harmonizing the liver and kidneys, the organs directly associated with eye problemsIn the West, problems with eyesight are treated separately from overall health, usually with prescription glasses or ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Realm of Organisation

    Essays for Robert Cooper

    Edited by Robert Chia ...
    This book breaks new ground, departing from an emphasis on 'organisations' as social objects and moving towards a position of analysis which situates itself in the wider context of the late modernity. The contributors of this book acknowledge the impact of Robert Cooper on their own work and develop further his insistence that organisational analysis must be understood in terms of the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Organized Worlds

    Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper

    Edited by Robert Chia ...
    Organized Worlds locates the study of organization within the wider area of social theory. It explores in detail the intricate relationships that exist between technology, representation and organization. The collection includes a chapter from the leading expert in the field, Robert Cooper, as well as an interview with him. Other contributors build upon and extend the findings of Cooper.This is a ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    by Professor Ian Convery, Catherine Roberts, Chia-Li Chen, Claire Twigger-Ross, Diana Walters, Ellie Land, Esther Edwards, Gerard Corsane, Gordon Walker0, Graeme Were1, Hugh Deeming2, Isabelle Lackman3, James Gardner4, Jo Besley5, John Welshman6, Jonathan Skinner7, Josephine Baxter8, Maggie Mort9, Marc Ancrenaz0, Marion Walker1, Professor Peter Davis3, Mark Wilson4, Özgün Emre Can5, Pat Caplan6, Peter Lurz7, Phil O'Keefe8, Philip R Stone9, Rebecca Whittle0, Richard Johnson1, Rob Morley2, Andy Law3, Rupert Ashmore4, Sarah Elliot5, Shalini Sharma6, Stephen Miles7, Susannah Eckersley8, Takashi Harada9, Tim Padley0, William Medd1, Aron Mazel2, Athur McIvor3, Billy Sinclair4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Bryony Onciul6 ...
    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Lure of Possible Futures

    Edited by Alex Wilkie, Martin Savransky, Marsha Rosengarten ...
    Series series CRESC
    Is another future possible? So called ‘late modernity’ is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social–natural, techno–scientific and political-economic developments. The future has indeed become problematic. The question of how heterogeneous actors engage futures, what intellectual and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Idea of English in Japan

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  • Reflexive Methodology

    New Vistas for Qualitative Research

    by Mats Alvesson, Kaj Skoldberg ...
    Praise for the Second Edition:"In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, cognitive, theoretical, ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

  • The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki, Eike von Savigny ...
    This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Dancing at the Edge

    Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century

    by Graham Leicester, Maureen O'Hara ...
    In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the capacity to understand, bring about and absorb a paradigm shift.He added: "I have an uneasy feeling about this chapter… It is a beginning, an outline, a suggestion… I believe that what I am saying here will ... Read more

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  • Inventive Methods

    The Happening of the Social

    Edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford ...
    Series series CRESC
    Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes.This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the ... Read more

    $91.99 USD